Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon · 15 Jan 2000 · 1,051pp · 334,334 words
, is anything like "Toro Rojo's gonna be riding in tonight." Both pardners know about that. The wind, bringing them down that raw Injun smell, ought to be enough for anybody. Oh God it's gonna be a shootout and bloody as hell. The wind will be blowing so hard blood will glaze on the north
Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations
by Garson O'Toole · 1 Apr 2017 · 376pp · 91,192 words
of science, 1949 “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” —Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” —Bill Gates, 1981 In 1996, as discussed earlier, Gates denied that he made the remark. He also questioned the existence of any solid reference for
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of Authoritative Misinformation, where it appeared with a footnote justification. However, the footnote simply pointed to the 1995 Washington Post article mentioned above:11 640K ought to be enough for anybody. —Remark attributed to Bill Gates (Founder and CEO of Microsoft), 1981 QI feels the evidence linking this quotation to Bill Gates is mixed. The first
Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets
by John McMillan · 1 Jan 2002 · 350pp · 103,988 words
, “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” In 1981, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, is reported to have said, “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” Businesspeople are as prone to forecasting error as anyone else. In a market economy, though, many such forecasts, some right, some wrong, are being acted
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
by Melanie Mitchell · 14 Oct 2019 · 350pp · 98,077 words
Olsen in 1977: “There’s no reason for individuals to have a computer in their home.” Bill Gates in 1981: “640,000 bytes of memory ought to be enough for anybody.”39 Hofstadter, having been stung by his own wrong predictions on computer chess, was hesitant to dismiss Kurzweil’s ideas out of hand, as crazy
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
by Ray Kurzweil · 31 Dec 1998 · 696pp · 143,736 words
.” —John von Neumann, 1949 “There’s no reason for individuals to have a computer in their home.” —Ken Olson, 1977 “640,000 bytes of memory ought to be enough for anybody.” —Bill Gates, 1981 “Long before the year 2000, the entire antiquated structure of college degrees, majors and credits will be a shambles.” —Alvin Toffler “The